Debian Bug report logs - #495484
blobwars: Contains non-free sound and music

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Guus Sliepen <guus@debian.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: blobwars: Contains non-free sound and music

Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 22:14:01 +0200

Package: blobwars
Version: 1.08-1
Severity: serious

The music and sounds in Blobwars are taken from various "free" online
repositories, which allow distribution and non-commercial use at the
minimum, but not necessarily DFSG-free. Some sounds and music files may
be in the public domain, but this is not clear yet. The sounds and music
should be split into a blobwars-data-nonfree package.

(I'm reporting this bug to prevent blobwars from getting released with
lenny before this is fixed.)

Message #10 received at 495484@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Raphael Champeimont (Almacha)" <almacha@almacha.org>

To: 495484@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Is the rest of the data free?

Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 22:39:12 +0200

As the upstream website says "Resources are Non Free." and the original
tar.gz does not contain information about copyright of graphics files
(at least I didn't find any), I was wondering if these were DFSG-free?

Almacha

Message #15 received at 495484@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Guus Sliepen <guus@debian.org>

To: "Raphael Champeimont (Almacha)" <almacha@almacha.org>, 495484@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#495484: Is the rest of the data free?

Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 22:47:57 +0200

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On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 10:39:12PM +0200, Raphael Champeimont (Almacha) wrote:

> As the upstream website says "Resources are Non Free." and the original
> tar.gz does not contain information about copyright of graphics files
> (at least I didn't find any), I was wondering if these were DFSG-free?

According to upstream it's just the music and sound effects that was taken from
online resources, the graphics were created by upstream.

-- 
Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
      Guus Sliepen <guus@debian.org>

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Message #20 received at 495484@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Raphael Champeimont (Almacha)" <almacha@almacha.org>

To: Guus Sliepen <guus@debian.org>, 495484@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#495484: Is the rest of the data free?

Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:01:49 +0200

Guus Sliepen wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 10:39:12PM +0200, Raphael Champeimont (Almacha) wrote:
> 
>> As the upstream website says "Resources are Non Free." and the original
>> tar.gz does not contain information about copyright of graphics files
>> (at least I didn't find any), I was wondering if these were DFSG-free?
> 
> According to upstream it's just the music and sound effects that was taken from
> online resources, the graphics were created by upstream.
> 

Ok, so as only sound and music are not free, it would be great if the
game could still be played by using only packages in main. I see the
following solutions:

1a. Make 2 data packages, a blobwars-data-non-free with the original
data, and a blobwars-data-free with original graphics, replaced music
(eg. you could replace all music files with music file
song_revenge_of_cats.it from the gltron package for example) and dummy
sound files (by replacing all them by
http://www.almacha.org/almacha/files/1ms_of_silence.wav for example).

1b. Same as 1a, but keeping the "common" data (graphics) in the blobwars
package, and only having blobwars-audio-non-free and
blobwars-audio-free. I don't know if this possible, as it looks
everything needs to be in one PAK file.

A long term solution could be to replace sound files with free (real,
not dummy files) replacements, but this requires some work and is not
makable for the lenny release.

2. Have a non-dependancy between blobwars (from main, with code and
graphics) and eg. blobwars-audio-non-free (from non-free, with music and
sound) and patch the code so that blobwars works even if it does not
find music and sound (currently missing music files only prints a
warnings if USEPAK=0 and I'm not sure it handles correctly the situation
if USEPAK=1 even if it does not crash, but missing sound files is a
fatal error).

Solution #1 has the advantage of needing no changes in the code, but
requires you to create 2 new packages instead of 1...

Saying all that is easy when you don't do the work anyway, so it's up to
you if you want to make the game playable without non-free, or simply
move blobwars to contrib as you probably intended...

Almacha

Message #25 received at 495484@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Guus Sliepen <guus@debian.org>

To: "Raphael Champeimont (Almacha)" <almacha@almacha.org>

Cc: 495484@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#495484: Is the rest of the data free?

Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:44:42 +0200

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On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 09:01:49AM +0200, Raphael Champeimont (Almacha) wrote:

> > According to upstream it's just the music and sound effects that was taken from
> > online resources, the graphics were created by upstream.
> 
> Ok, so as only sound and music are not free, it would be great if the
> game could still be played by using only packages in main. I see the
> following solutions:
> 
> 1a. Make 2 data packages, a blobwars-data-non-free with the original
> data, and a blobwars-data-free with original graphics, replaced music
[...]
> 1b. Same as 1a, but keeping the "common" data (graphics) in the blobwars
> package, and only having blobwars-audio-non-free and
> blobwars-audio-free. I don't know if this possible, as it looks
> everything needs to be in one PAK file.
[...]
> 2. Have a non-dependancy between blobwars (from main, with code and
> graphics) and eg. blobwars-audio-non-free (from non-free, with music and
> sound) and patch the code so that blobwars works even if it does not
> find music and sound (currently missing music files only prints a
> warnings if USEPAK=0 and I'm not sure it handles correctly the situation
> if USEPAK=1 even if it does not crash, but missing sound files is a
> fatal error).

I'm already working on it, and I'm going for option 2. I don't have too much
free time at the moment, so it might take a few days before I'll upload the
results.

-- 
Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
      Guus Sliepen <guus@debian.org>

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Message #30 received at 495484@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Raphael Champeimont (Almacha)" <almacha@almacha.org>

To: Guus Sliepen <guus@debian.org>

Cc: 495484@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#495484: Is the rest of the data free?

Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:03:15 +0200

Guus Sliepen wrote:
> I'm already working on it, and I'm going for option 2. I don't have too much
> free time at the moment, so it might take a few days before I'll upload the
> results.
> 

Ok, right.

Almacha

Message #37 received at 495484-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Guus Sliepen <guus@debian.org>

To: 495484-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#495484: fixed in blobwars 1.08-dfsg-1

Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 17:18:43 +0000

Source: blobwars
Source-Version: 1.08-dfsg-1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
blobwars, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

blobwars-data_1.08-dfsg-1_all.deb
  to pool/main/b/blobwars/blobwars-data_1.08-dfsg-1_all.deb
blobwars_1.08-dfsg-1.diff.gz
  to pool/main/b/blobwars/blobwars_1.08-dfsg-1.diff.gz
blobwars_1.08-dfsg-1.dsc
  to pool/main/b/blobwars/blobwars_1.08-dfsg-1.dsc
blobwars_1.08-dfsg-1_amd64.deb
  to pool/main/b/blobwars/blobwars_1.08-dfsg-1_amd64.deb
blobwars_1.08-dfsg.orig.tar.gz
  to pool/main/b/blobwars/blobwars_1.08-dfsg.orig.tar.gz



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 495484@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Guus Sliepen <guus@debian.org> (supplier of updated blobwars package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 22:58:49 +0200
Source: blobwars
Binary: blobwars blobwars-data
Architecture: source amd64 all
Version: 1.08-dfsg-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Guus Sliepen <guus@debian.org>
Changed-By: Guus Sliepen <guus@debian.org>
Description: 
 blobwars   - A platform shooting game
 blobwars-data - A platform shooting game
Closes: 288173 495484
Changes: 
 blobwars (1.08-dfsg-1) unstable; urgency=low
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   * Remove all music and sound files from the upstream tarball, as they are
     not DFSG compliant. Closes: #495484
   * Do not put all data files in one PAK file anymore.
   * Put the other data files into a blobwars-data package. Closes: #288173
   * Ignore missing sound and music files.
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